The Mysterious RunOnce Key

Back in
my old packaging days, we used to use the RunOnce key all of the time. It
seems that this key is a mystery to many people in the field, so i am going to
clear it up (a little).

Back in my old packaging days, we used to use the RunOnce key all of the time. It seems that this key is a mystery to many people in the field, so i am going to clear it up (a little).

Basically, the
RunOnce key will allow you to run anything once after the machine is rebooted.
This can be nice if you need to kick off a script or a batch file to complete an
install or something like that.

If you
want to see the RunOnce key, crack open your registry editor by typing regedt32
into your run box:

The
location of the RunOnce key is:

My Computer/HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/RunOnce

When you are there (by default) you will see:

If you
are going to be using this, I would strongly advise thorough testing.